Word: perfected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perfect conductor of light. Light from a match or pocket flash at one end of a fused quartz rod 25 feet long passed through the tube without appreciable loss of illumination. Further, the light travels intact through bent and twisted tubes, around corners, no matter how long or devious the way, just as a hose carries water...
...perfect heat transmitter, remaining cool on the surface while the heat rays pass through a tube of it undiminished...
...driving rain, the University started off with a rush and at the end of the first half, the score was 5 to 0. During the second period, Coach Herbert made numerous substitutions, and while the perfect team work which characterized play during the first half was lacking, the Harvard mentor declared himself pleased with the showing...
...Pelliot, the famous Frenchman, had explored this route before, so that we hardly expected to discover anything new. One cave, however, that we found behind a shrine, was filled with nearly perfect carving which covered every inch of the surface. It was very early Buddhist work, and consequently most important. A statue in the cave, of one of Buddha's attendant gods, is one of the few things I have brought back with me and, by all odds, the greatest single prize of the trip...
...reader has gained the impression that "The Thief of Bagdad" is perfect, he is wrong. The reviewer can think of several faults that he might point out. But the virtues are so much greater than the vices, and the picture is withal so far above the ordinary, that its shortcomings may well be overlooked. If the motion picture camera has ever recorded a more enchanting romance, a more delightfully impossible fantasy, or a cleaner fairy story, it has not been the pleasure of the writer...